Those lovely fingers

Those lovely fingers!

You are really beautiful
there is no doubt about it
If I were a classical poet
I would have compared your face
to the lotus or the moonbeams and what not
But in the modern age
that may sound ridiculous

About one thing I am sure though
Love, beauty and everything good
flows through those gentle fingers
They are impressively expressive

When you slide your fingers
on the frets of the vINA strings
and produce those waves of melody

or when you glide your fingers
on the floor with the rangOli powder
to produce those tender artistic patterns

or when you feed our young one
coaxing to eat little morsels of food
showing the moon in the sky

or when you gently run your fingers
through my hair at the end of the day
offering a prelude to unknown joys

it is those fingers,
those lovely fingers
those love-filled fingers
that I think of

J K Mohana Rao